In addition to our graduates, we also congratulate our students who earned departmental honors and writing awards. Check bit.ly/3fF1Kd4 and bit.ly/2AGYlfk to learn more. #WaytoGo #hardworkpaysoff

"When symbols emblematic of white supremacy come down it means that the power to erect and maintain such symbols is shifting," English prof Natasha Trethewey writes in the @NYTimes: wcas.nu/38StJEl Natasha Trethewey Northwestern English

The @NYTimes describes #MemorialDrive, the new memoir by English prof & Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, as "a controlled burn of chaos & intellection; it is a memoir that will really lay you out": wcas.nu/3306zLa Natasha Trethewey Northwestern English #NetGalley

Newcity Chicago released it's 2020 Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago. Northwestern English faculty featured include Maya Marshall, Rachel Jamison Webster, Eula Biss, and Natasha Trethewey, with Stuart Dybek in the Hall of Fame! lit.newcity.com/2020/07/30/lit… Weinberg College at Northwestern Northwestern

Sally Wainwright, anne choma, Pat Esgate & Laurie Shannon & friends are thrilled to launch The #AnneLister Society! Please follow for news & visit our website! West Yorkshire Archive Service Shibden Hall Helena Whitbread Jill Liddington Jane Scullion CulturalLaura @liederfollower #annelistercodebreaker

Litowitz MFA+MA student, E. Hughes, has a poem published in Platypus Press. Congratulations!

The MENA Program has a new director! Meet Rebecca Johnson, a scholar of Arabic and comparative literature, with a focus on translation, literary exchange, and the transnational circulation of texts and forms mena.northwestern.edu/about/news/202…

Meet Dr. Kasey Evans, the director of graduate studies (DGS) in the Northwestern English in Weinberg College at Northwestern. She is also an associate professor of English and affiliated with the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. Learn more: bit.ly/2G26CMQ. #MeetTGS

#ModernDrama is accepting submissions for a special issue on new approaches to Harold Pinter’s plays. Visit bit.ly/PinterCFP for all the details! #CallForPapers #HaroldPinter #Pinter #Playwright British Library Northwestern English York Dept of English

In collaboration with PBS American Portrait and American Academy of Arts & Sciences, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Prof. Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey introduces a collective poem inspired by the poem “For My People,” by Margaret Walker Alexander. Northwestern English wcas.nu/3qpCxc9

Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry recipient and Prof. Natasha Trethewey created a collaborative remix of “For My People,” a Civil Rights anthem written by alumna Margaret Walker Alexander ’35 in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #MLKDay

Profs. Kasey Evans, Kelly Wisecup and Marcela A. Fuentes have been named the 2021 recipients of NUAlumnae Award for Curriculum Innovation. spr.ly/6012HjW6I

Renaissance Drama 48.2 is now online Chicago Journals. ~ Essays on economies of race in #Dekker & #Shakespeare. Reinventions of #race in Heywood. Patching up #Hamlet in German. Staging grammar wars. Playing w/ acrostics in early mod. plays. Northwestern English journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rd/current

Congratulations Professor Reginald Gibbons @poemthink! Gibbons will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame’s Fuller Award, the organization’s highest honor, to celebrate his outstanding lifetime contributions to literature. Northwestern English wcas.nu/3uo4TXq

.Abani directs NU African Studies, teaches Northwestern English and is a *prolific* author. His memoir The Face: Cartography of the Void will be the centerpiece of our conversation with him Friday at 12pm CT in the Global Lunchbox series. REGISTER for the Zoom link: bit.ly/chris-abani

This episode of our Global Lunchbox podcast features a wide-ranging & spirited conversation with Northwestern English professor, NU African Studies director, international man of letters Abani, hosted by International & Area Studies at Northwestern Weinberg College at Northwestern director Ian Hurd Give it a listen! soundcloud.com/wccias/global-…

🎉🎩🎓📚Missed our panel at the opening of #AnneListerCollege University of York? Now posted here ➡️ youtu.be/j1ERTdJJSe4 With #SallyWainwright OBE, Gary Brannan, & Prof #LaurieShannon, & chair Emma Barnett! 🌈 #AnneLister #gentlemanjack @annelisterUoY #justusproposititenax #cake

🎩🎉As the #AnneLister Soc’y reaches 2500 followers —thanks & welcome, all!— we’ve just posted the splendid slate of talks & speakers who’ll present emerging research on our #YorkshirePolymath, over 2 days in Halifax!🪶 Check out our spring program(me) ➡️ english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis…